Word Meanings - ELONGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line. 2. To remove further off. Sir T. Browne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ELONGATE)

• Attenuate
• Educe
• elongate
• reduce
• fine-drawn
• narrow
• contract
• diminish
• compress
• Protract
• Prolong
• produce
• defer
• extend
• lengthen
• continue
• draw out
• Stretch
• Extend
• expand
• spread
• strain
• tighten
• reach

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ELONGATE)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon

Related words: (words related to ELONGATE)

• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• TIGHTENER
  That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• CANCEL
  To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• DEFERENTIALLY
  With deference.
• REACH
  An effort to vomit.
• REACHABLE
  Being within reach.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• SEDUCER
  One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.
• INCOMPRESSIBLE
  Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.